Heart:
Heart Failure, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Human Heart, Open Heart Surgery.
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Jul 9th, 2009
The 30-day mortality (death) and readmission rates for acute care of heart attack and heart failure patients vary significantly from hospital to hospital across the nation.
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Jul 7th, 2009
A test that measures oxygen levels in newborns can detect “critical” congenital heart disease, but there are variables involved with the test that require more study before it is adopted for universal newborn screening.
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Jul 7th, 2009
The report examines the use of a procedure called radiofrequency catheter ablation to treat a type of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
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Jul 6th, 2009
Earlier this week the FDA approved Multaq tablets (dronedarone) in the treatment of heart arrhythmias. The irregular heart rhythms include atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter.
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Jun 26th, 2009
Heart problems observed in mothers of sons with Duchenne and Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
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Jun 24th, 2009
A new nonsurgical technique to repair leaking mitral valves in heart failure patients was safe in a study reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions.
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Jun 23rd, 2009
Boston Scientific said on Tuesday that its four year study on the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization defibrillators in slowing the course of heart failure in patients with milder cases has proved successful.
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Jun 17th, 2009
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, 84, joins a list of other celebrities who have needed heart valve surgery. Koch who served as major from 1977 to 1989 suffered a heart attack in 1999.
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Jun 10th, 2009
Researchers have added another potential risk of exposure to BPA. According to animal studies, BPA may harm the heart, especially in women perhaps because of estrogen receptors in the heart. BPA stimulates estrogen activity. The new link that BPA can especially harm women’s hearts correlates with research implicating BPA exposure as a risk of breast cancer in women.
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Jun 9th, 2009
Cutting radiation for heart test by 50 percent can protect patients from potential risks of radiation exposure.
